Pricing for profit: How to pay yourself and increase margins in your product business. If you run a product business and aren’t consistently paying yourself properly, something needs to change. Too many creative business owners underpay themselves, underestimate their time, and operate on margins that barely cover materials. Let alone profit. This is how businesses […]
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Another game I used to play when I was younger was a dominoes style game that was made up with pictures instead, for when we were younger! As you can see it was a very colourful game and I loved the chunkiness of the cards as well. The pansies, cherries and beach balls were my […]
Read MorePatty and Bella created our workshop for our June WI meeting. They showed us how to create a real flower corsage. It was in patriotic colours of red, white and blue as it was just after the Jubilee. This meant it included a red rose, a blue thistle and a white chrysanthemum. It was great to […]
Read MoreArt Brut can normally divide my friends with many falling into the ‘I don’t like them’ group. However I always have to disagree. They are simply brilliant live – so much fun and energy. Eddie Argos is hilarious and so good at what he does. The songs come to life so much more and you […]
Read MoreI went to New Designers part one last week for work. I love New Designers and it will always hold a special place in my heart as I exhibited there when I completed my surface pattern degree in 2006. So six years on I return every year to see the new graduates work. I am […]
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Merci, Danke sehr, Gracias, Thank you. You have to be thankful for life and I am right now. Here is a selection of thanks in French. I love the car number plate however the merci text on the photo postcards is so nice, simple but effective. Sources: 1. Merci plaques from Jules Vernacular 2. Merci car number […]
Read MoreI have to admit to not knowing much about Dan Black apart from this song – really will check out his other stuff now.. I have this song as when I went to the Camden Crawl in 2009 you received a free CD download and this was one of the songs on the album. I […]
Read MoreI went to Pick Me Up fair again this year, three years running so far. One illustrators work really caught my eye and that was Niki Pilkington. I loved her style of drawing, the subjects she choose and the combination of pencil and collage. Her bio at Pick Me Up fair described her work as […]
Read MoreThis song is great and will always make me want to dance. I love the singing intro accompanied by the drums and also the break where it goes into the end of the song – brilliant! I have seen them twice and both times have been great. Although I can’t rate Alexandra Palace as highly […]
Read More  As previously mentioned my grampy was a pigeon racer. My grandparents home was one of my favourute places to go when I was younger. As a child I will always remember our parents driving to their house, turning off the main road where we would pull up to the little stone cottages. Me and my brother […]
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Ahh pallets, you find them on the street abandoned and just look at all of the different uses there are for them! I think they work particularly well in the garden and make great planters. I don’t currently have any in my garden but I do have a wheelbarrow with herbs growing in it and […]
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